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Revelation 9:7-10 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces. They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion. They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle. They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

Sounds like what happened to my ancestors. Only they were all north of Hadrian’s Wall and the Romans couldn’t touch them. Every time the Romans sent legions into the highlands to “pacify” the Clans, they got their asses fuckin WHOOPED, Jack. It took the Clans a while to get their heads out of their asses and organize, but we still sent those Romans back to Londonium with their tails between their legs.

They did give us one thing though, that is the techniques of how to make steel.

@9 If I understand the Tea Pottiers correctly, having a permit to hold their event on the lawn of the Arizona State Capitol building turned that public property into “private property.” I rather doubt that’s the case, and the guy filming should have called the cops the moment these people started harassing him.

Arizona Department of General Services’ permit application form imposes various requirements on permit applicants, such as having insurance and being responsible for cleanup, including a duty to report any “disturbance of peace” to the Capitol Police. So it would seem that if the event organizers had an issue with any person’s presence, their responsibility was to notify the Capitol Police, not to eject the person themselves.

They are zombies, however, having had important parts of their brain corroded away – the sites of empathy and critical thinking, and their motivation centers, rather than being oriented toward the good of their fellow people, are exclusively directed at either hateful preachermen (see puddybigot) or the people who throw them cash from time to time.

I doubt there’s any “corrosion” involved, I would think it much more likely that those part of their minds that foster compassion and empathy never existed in the first place. They’re psychopaths. That part of their brain that processes emotion and emotional relationships with other humans never developed at all.

Any emotional display is artificial, an act. You can see it clearly in Bachmann’s “smile”. It is full of avarice and joy at the deception they believe they are pulling off. They know they’re lying, they know their intention is to deceive. And they take incredible joy from that knowledge.

It is a product of their perception of how they are supposed to behave as reflected in the people they surround themselves with, those superficial relationships they focus on fostering for themselves, because deeper emotional connections with people are totally outside of their cognitive ability. Empathy does not exist at all. They were born blind and deaf. Their primary focus is on how they believe other people should see them. Thats why such folks are immune to criticism when they are wrong about something. Even when they are demonstrably and egregiously wrong.

Unfortunately, there are limits to the value of logic and education. Values tell you where to go, logic and education tell you how to get there.

Example: Global warming deniers’ primary value is to keep pumping out greenhouse gasses and leave the consequences to our grandchildren. They use any education they have to read and distrubute contrary evidence or theories to explain the phenomena, no matter how far-fetched or shred contrary evidence, no matter how much it goes against the great weight of other evidence and is unrecognized by scientific colleagues.

Such people cannot recognize Art, nor natural beauty. They look at a healthy, old forest, and see only the possibility of destroying it to enrich themselves. They see a field full of wildflowers, and cannot perceive the simple beauty of those flowers, they see only an empty lot full of weeds.

They sneer at artists and the products of those artist’s efforts because it is impossible for themselves to be creative and original, all the while claiming admiration for the talents.

True, original creativity is utterly outside of their cognitive ability. They cannot recognize creativity except where it poses a potential threat to their own perception of how such creative minds are supposed to behave. People of small mind are threatened by the ability and talent they cannot themselves possess. So they oppose it, often violently but always with the intention of controlling it or destroying it.

Perhaps it is merely is just a product of covetousness.

They cannot recognize other’s ability to view the world as a place to live, especially when that ability reflects their own inability to live within the parameters of their own impossible belief systems, and shames those belief systems for the mere deceptions they truly are.

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